The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
A lot of airlines have come and gone.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
Direct flights facilitate business. They facilitate business-to-business collaborations. I think anything that makes it easier to bring two areas together is a significant benefit to deepening relations and connections.
Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.
I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'
There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.